Meeting the Demands of Todays Digital Business with ScaleArc

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Meeting the Demands of Today’s

Digital Business

The need for a modern data tier


Today’s Consumer Apps Have Redefined our Expectations

Never down Always fast Scale anywhere


Enterprise-grade Apps Don’t Meet Digital Business Needs

• They go down

– The business loses revenue, and you get woken up

• They’re slow

– The business loses customers, and you get yelled at

• They’re hard to scale

– The business can’t grow, and you miss your MBOs

Consumer Grade is the new Enterprise Grade


What’s Holding You Back? The Data Tier

The database hiccups, and your apps throw up

• Database failover takes down the app

• Maintenance takes down the app

• Scaling takes code changes

• And the cloud just makes it worse


You Need a Modern Data Tier – But Your Apps Can’t Use It

• A new approach: Database load balancing software

• Unlock the power of modern databases without writing a single line

of code

• Never down

• Always fast

• Scale anywhere

Transparent deployment – no code changes to the app or database


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Avoid Downtime during Unplanned Outages

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3 After secondary is

promoted, ScaleArc

directs queries to new

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read/write split

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2 Upon database failure,

ScaleArc queues

writes

3 After secondary is

promoted, ScaleArc

directs queries to new

primary server

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4 Apps see delay, but

do not restart


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Enable Zero Downtime Maintenance

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1 Mark a database to be

taken offline

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2 ScaleArc automatically

reroutes queries away

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from offline server

3 Patch the server and

bring it back online


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4 After health check,

ScaleArc auto

restores traffic to

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bring it back online



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Improve Performance

CPU Usage

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Improve Performance

CPU Usage

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1 Connection pooling,

authentication offload

reduce CPU usage


Improve Performance

CPU Usage

R R WWR

1 Connection pooling,

authentication offload

reduce CPU usage

2 App-transparent caching

improves response time

10x to 60x


Enable Cross Geo, Cloud, and Hybrid Deployments

1 ScaleArc performs read/write

split and geo-load balance

database traffic

2 Best performance achieved by

Time To First Byte

3 Active replication lag

monitoring; avoids sending

traffic to lagging nodes

4 Database auto failover is

enabled within and across

data centers

App Servers App Servers

Site A Site B or CloudWeb

Load

Balancer

Web

Load

Balancer

Global Traffic Manager

replication

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See What You’ve Never Seen Before

Agentless Real-time Monitoring

• Get database-specific metrics to help

eliminate bottlenecks

One Central Log for all DBs

• So information about a DB is available,

even if it isn’t

Database Performance Analytics

• To help rebalance workloads and plan

future purchases


You Could Try to Build This Yourself

• Invest in a modern database to get:

– Scale out and replication, automated failover

• Rewrite your apps to use the new database

• And you still wouldn’t get:

– Zero downtime for the app

– Fastest app performance

– Scale across geos or into the cloud

It would cost you a lot – and you still won’t deliver consumer grade apps


Your Peers Have Made their Apps Consumer Grade with ScaleArc

Across a Wide Range of eCommerce and SaaS Apps

Content/MediaHealthcare

Financial Services


Here’s What it’s Meant to their Business

$188K saved in

a single outage

No outage with

database failure

$320K

saved in a year

Dev time

avoided

$2M higher

annual revenue

No maintenance

windows2x faster

website

$3M

higher revenue

2x faster

app rollout

Avoided

coding


Nasdaq – Delivering Zero Downtime

“The ScaleArc technology is also

totally transparent, to both the

apps and databases, so we

could deploy it with no code

changes. It gives us zero

downtime.”

--Prasad Parvathaneni, Nasdaq

http://www.scalearc.com/case-study/nasdaq-1





ScaleArc – Generating a Lot of Buzz


Why Customers Choose ScaleArc


Next Steps:

1. Run a live demo

2. Target a critical app for a Proof of Value (PoV)

3. Perform an assessment of your application environment

4. Run the POV and review results

5. Deliver consumer-grade apps!

Additional Resources:

How it Works

Case Studies

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http://www.scalearc.com/how-it-works

http://www.scalearc.com/customers

Meeting the Demands of Todays Digital Business with ScaleArc

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